McCloskey, Donald N. 　著

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Part I. Exordium: 1. A positivist youth; 2. Kicking the dead horse; PartII. Narration: 3. Economics in the human conversation; 4. The rhetoric ofeconomics; Part III. Division: 5. The Science word in economics; 6. Threeways of reading economics to criticize itself; 7. Popper and Lakatos: thinways of reading economics; 8. Thick readings: ethics, economics, sociologyand rhetoric; Part IV. Proof: 9. The rise of a scientistic style; 10. Therhetoric of mathematical formalism: existence theorems; 11. Generalequilibrium and the rhetorical history of formalism; 12. Blackboard Marxism;13. Formalists as poets and politicians; Part V. Refutation: 14. The veryidea of epistemology; 15. The tu quoque argument and the claims ofrationalism; 16. Armchair philosophy of economics: Rosenberg and Hausman; 17.Philosophy of science without epistemology: the Popperians; 18. TheRosenberg: reactionary modernism; 19. Methodologists of economics, big-M andsmall; 20. Getting 'rhetoric': Mark Blaug and the Eleatic Stranger; 21.Coats/McPherson/Friedman: anti-meta-post-modernism; 22. Spleneticrationalism, Austrian style; 23. The economists of ideology: Heilbroner,Rossetti, and Mirowski; 24. Rhetoric as morally radical; Part VI. Peroration:25. The economy as a conversation; 26. The consequences of rhetoric.